How about cleaning up the collar on the shirt and reworking the Landing Party Jacket to something akin to the Monster Maroons? There is some definite potential there if they weren't so badly constructed.
Do we know why Pike and co are in the different uniforms?
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How about cleaning up the collar on the shirt and reworking the Landing Party Jacket to something akin to the Monster Maroons? There is some definite potential there if they weren't so badly constructed.
Not anymore.
Exactly that
There was an internal memo released a few years ago stating that every starship was suppose to have the same badge, but someone on the team screwed up or didn't know that, which is why some ships ended up having different badges.
But internal memos are not canon.
Seems like that one became canon, as everyone in both the Abramsverse and Discoverse wear arrowhead badges well before TOS.
The memo became public after the Kelvin movies came out IIRC.
And the Discovery's badge isn't identical to the Enterprise's.
Inside Star Trek: The Real Story came out in 1996. It has the memo.
Its an arrowhead.
Not an identical arrowhead though.
Also my bad.
Even though it did, Enterprise ignored it and gave the Defiant its own badge.
It is an arrowhead, pretty much the same shape. I'm holding one in my hand right now.
I'm not wrong.
They all have slits down the side. Discovery, Starfleet command, all the Starfleet command emblems, even the ones on the Enterprise computers.
The Enterprise has its own unique version of the Arrowhead without the slit.
You realize that more than a few feet away, and you really can't see the slit. The arrowhead is the badge for all of Starfleet. A line in it doesn't change that.
The landing party jackets is definitely how I would have done a Robert April series. I feel like if they were tighter fitting, made of better material, with the coloured turtleneck sweaters underneath, it would have been a cool, yet retro look.
I love retro-futuristic looks and it was a real missed opportunity that they didn't go for that aesthetic for STD. STD looks so generic, like every modern dark and gritty sci-fi show.
They took the DSC uniforms, applied TOS colors to them, and added rank-stripes. So, now we have DiscoTOS Uniforms.
I think it was done so the look of the Discovery Uniforms and the Enterprise Uniforms would match up better. Otherwise, a DSC/Cage Crossover would look as jarring as a crossover between Mad Men and a series set during Present Day.
looks pretty. different to me. And it's noticeably different in the trailer too at a distance.
They both look like arrowheads with the command star in the center.
But they're not identical.
Even the computer screens and 2D emblems include the right side being different from the left.
Okay? The TOS arrowhead isn't a direct replica of "The Cage" arrowhead. The movie arrowhead isn't a direct replica of the TOS badge. The TNG badge isn't a direct replica of any of the prior badges. Not really seeing your point?
It means eventually Starfleet adopts the full arrowhead that the Enterprise is currently using.
Or that it simply always had an arrowhead as its symbol. That is canon. The Kelvin had them in 2233. The Discovery and the rest of Starfleet in 2258.
But they don't. Their arrowhead isn't flat, it isn't a solid colour on the logos.
While the Enterprise's is flat, and both sides are of even height.
